http://www.grasstopsusa.com/donfeder.jpgIt Used To Be "First The Saturday
People, Then The Sunday People." But Moslems Can't Hardly Wait
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
11-16-10
As a Jew, I don’t ask Christians to support Israel because of God’s
promises to the Patriarchs, affirmed by the Prophets.
There are millions of Christians who believe as I do that His promises
to the Jewish people are eternal and that the land of Israel was given to them
in perpetuity.
Other Christians believe that by refusing to accept Jesus as the
messiah, the old covenant was nullified, the Church became the new Israel, and
Jewish claims to the land are no more valid than Arab claims to Andalusia –
perhaps less so.
While I may not agree with these Christians, I’m not about to tell them
what to believe. Instead, I remind them that my enemies are their enemies, and
that what starts with the Jews never stops with the Jews.
A recently concluded Vatican synod of 185 bishops from the Middle East
went further than the boilerplate calls for an “end to the occupation of
Palestinian lands.”
Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, head of the Synod, said the idea of a
land promised to the Jews was preposterous. “For Christians, one can no longer
talk about the land promised to the Jewish people. There is no longer a favored
people, a chosen people; all men and women of every country have become the
chosen people.”
Does that mean Swedes and Samoans get a piece of the land promised to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? BTW, as far as the precious Palestinians are
concerned, Tel Aviv, Haifa and West Jerusalem are as much occupied territory as
Ramallah and Hebron.
The Archbishop’s pronouncement (also known as replacement theology)
caused WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joe Farah (like Bustros, a Lebanese-born
Christian), to wonder “what version of the Bible Bustros is reading.” Farah
observes, “Without the fulfilled prophecies (of a Jewish return to the Promised
Land), the Christian faith itself is neutered.”
Repeatedly, throughout what's called the Old Testament, God promises
all of the Holy Land to the Israelites and their descendants. When Abraham
first appears in the Biblical narrative, God tells him to “go to the land I
will show you.” Later, He tells the father of the Jewish people, “All the land
which you see I give to you and your descendants.”
The same pledge is made to each of the Patriarchs in turn, and
periodically repeated throughout the Five Books of Moses. One Bible scholar
says the promise is made 69 times in Deuteronomy alone.
The refrain is then taken up in by the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, Amos, Hosea, Obadiah and Zephaniah) – God will “have mercy on Jacob,
and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land,” “will bring them
out from the people and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to
their own land,” and “will plant them upon their land, and shall no more be
pulled out of their land which I have given them.”
Did God change his mind? Sometime in the first century, did He say,
“Hey, that’s it; I’ve had it with these stiff-necked Jews. I promised Israel to
them for all time. But now they’ve lost it. Thanks for playing. As a
consolation prize, they get Grosse Pointe and Scarsdale?”
I wonder if Bustros ever wonders why every ancient people has vanished
from the face of the earth, except the Jews. (Try programming Babylonia or
Assyria into your GPS.) Does he think it’s a coincidence that the Jews – and
only the Jews – returned to their land after 2,000 years of exile?
As I said, I don’t ask Christians to accept my interpretation of the
Bible - even though it's the only one that makes sense.
I do ask that they think long and hard about what’s going on today –
that there’s a religious/political movement aimed at global domination. For
every Jewish victim, it produces a mountain of Christian corpses. As Israel
goes, so goes Italy, Britain and the United States.
On November 11 (as the Brits observed what’s still called Armistice Day
over there) in London, a Moslem mob – protesting the “illegal and unjust war in
Afghanistan” – shouted insults and carried signs that read “British Soldiers
Burn in Hell!” and “To Hell With Democracy.”
This attitude, so typical of the religion of peace, would not have
surprised a British statesman of another era, who warned almost a century ago:
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the
religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.” Churchill
added: “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Mohammedanism is a
militant and proselytizing faith.”
The Turkish slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians (1914-1918) wasn’t in
response to the Israeli “occupation of Palestinian land.” (There was no state
of Israel until 1948.) The Moslem conquest of Constantinople (accompanied by
rape, pillage, slaughter and enslavement), was not precipitated by a Zionist
conspiracy to seize Arab lands. The genocide in the Sudan – whose Moslem
militias have been playing Nazis and Jews with Christians in the south for two
decades now – isn’t a protest against what the left calls Israeli apartheid.
I wish the Vatican would think about this: When Jews are insulted, they
whine about it. (We call it kvetching.) When Moslems are offended, people die.
The Synod may recall the reaction to Benedict XVI quoting an obscure
12th century Byzantine emperor in a 2006 speech at Regensburg University.
(“Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find
things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the
faith he preached.”)
The pontiff’s historical reference led to rioting across the Moslem
world, the firebombing of West Bank churches, a condemnation by Pakistan’s
parliament, calls for the Pope’s death (“We will smash the cross!”), forecasts
of the fall of Rome, and the murder of an Italian nun in Somalia. And this was
after Benedict apologized. Australia’s Cardinal George Pell said the “violent
reactions … showed the link for many Islamists between religion and violence,
their refusal to respond to criticism with rational arguments, but only with
demonstrations, threats and actual violence.”
Seven centuries after Manuel II Palaiologos, the emperor’s observation
regarding Islam’s fondness for the scimitar were seconded by Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, founder of Iran’s terror state and arguably the Moslem who had the
greatest impact on the 20th century.
“Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not
disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of (other)
countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.”
Moreover: “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against
war. Those (who say this) are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers
just as they would kill you all!” Barack, your madrassa is calling.
In the Third World, that edict is written in blood:
• Moslems killed four more Christians in a string of bombings in Baghdad last
week. That’s in addition to the 58 worshippers killed when gunmen invaded
Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation Church on October 31. Iraq’s Christian
community has suffered eight years of this. It’s now less than half the pre-war
total of 800,000.
• On October 20, Dr. Monir Dawoud, president of the American Coptic
Association, had a rally in front of the United Nations building in New York to
protest the ongoing persecution of one of the world’s oldest Christian
communities, comprising an estimated 10% of Egypt’s population. On January 6,
six Copts were murdered leaving a church after services for Orthodox Christmas.
Christian girls are often kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam – a quaint
custom practiced throughout the Moslem world. There are regular death threats
against the religious leader of the Copts, Pope Shenouda III. As a
justification for the next round of violence, the ex-secretary general of the
International Union of Moslem Scholars recently appeared on Al Jazeera,
claiming the Copts were stockpiling weapons (supplied by Israel, naturally) in
preparation for an attack on Moslems – who outnumber them nine to one.
• In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, has been sentenced to
death under the nation’s law against blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed – one of
the tactics employed by Moslem clerics to terrorize Pakistan’s 3 million
Christians.
• In March, between 200 and 400 Christian villagers were killed by
machete-wielding Moslems in Nigeria. Victims included women, children and a
4-day-old baby. MSNBC reported: “On Sunday, the bodies of children tangled with
each other in a local morgue, including a diaper-clad toddler. Another young
victim appeared to have been scalped, while others had severed hands and feet.”
This was probably to protest the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Zionist
imperialism and George W. Bush.
In 1914, Christians represented an estimated 26% of the Middle East’s
population. Now, they’re down to around 6%. Once 60% of the population,
Bethlehem’s Christians now comprise no more than 15%.
Interviewed by a German journalist, a young Christian in the city of
Jesus’ birth said he would speak of persecution only if his name wasn’t used,
or he would be “a dead man.”
“Either they would blow my brains out or accuse me of collaboration
with Israel. Then I would also be tortured.” Crimes against the Christian
minority range from rape and murder to shakedowns – tactics intended to make
Bethlehem Christian-rein. You might call it Moslem displacement theology.
“Our church leaders and the Christian politicians also are afraid and
don’t want to make things worse. That’s why they remain silent,” the anonymous
Christian discloses.
Can you guess the only place in the Middle East where Christians can
practice their religion in peace? It’s also the only place in the Middle East
where the Christian population is growing, as well as the only place where
Christian holy sites are treated with respect. When Jordan controlled the West
Bank, they were closed to tourists.
Give up? It’s the country whose legitimacy Archbishop Bustros seeks to
undermine.
The persecution of Christians in the Moslem world is another result of
the Islamic resurgence, which started in the ‘60s, spurred by oil wealth, a
surplus population, and a return to the religion’s glorious roots. Absent
Israel, none of this would change. It would only free up resources and fighters
for other fronts in the international jihad.
In the 1950s, the Moslem Brotherhood had a saying: “First the Saturday
people, then the Sunday people.” But thoroughly modern Moslems can't hardly
wait.
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